US EditionJoliet Candle Vigil Set To Mourn Death Of Alex Pretti, Registered Nurse: Bring Candles Or Glow Sticks
National Nurses United links nurse's death during immigration raid to systemic violence by federal agencies and demands Senate block Department of Homeland Security funding.
- On January 26, 2026, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old Veterans Affairs Hospital ICU nurse and AFGE Local 3669 member, was shot while observing a federal immigration action in Minneapolis.
- National Nurses United , with more than 225,000 members, announced weeklong vigils and urged the U.S. Senate to block DHS funding and revoke $75 billion in ICE funding via H.R. 1.
- Bystander videos show Pretti aiding a pepper-sprayed person before multiple federal agents tackled and disarmed him, then fired at him at least 10 times while he carried a 9mm pistol.
- Labor leaders demanded investigations and accountability, calling for Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller to resign and for local authorities to act, with Seattle and Joliet vigils planned.
- Labor points to broader patterns and policy links as Pretti's killing follows Renee Nicole Good's earlier death, with unions citing 32 people who died in ICE custody in 2025 and rising support to 45 percent in a YouGov/Economist poll last week.
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Largest Federal Workers Union Demands Ouster of Noem, Miller Over Killing of VA Nurse Alex Pretti
"Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a 'domestic terrorist,'" said the national president of the American Federation of Government Employees.
Radical Nurse's Union on Shooting Death of Anti-ICE Activist: "Pretti’s death will not be in vain. ICE messed with the wrong profession. We nurses will fight to abolish ICE"
National Nurses United, a union of nursing professionals that claims over 225,000 members, announced a campaign to abolish ICE in tribute to Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse shot to death by CBP agents in Minneapolis on Saturday while interfering with an operation attempting the arrest of criminal illegal alien.
Massive union overseeing Border Patrol demands ouster of Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller
A massive union that represents some of President Donald Trump's immigration agents called on two of the administration's top officials to resign following the killing of an ICU nurse in Minneapolis over the weekend. The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents more than 820,000...
Bay Area demonstrators honor Veterans Affairs ICU nurse Alex Pretti, other victims of ICE
An outpouring of support in the Bay Area Alex Pretti--a Veterans Affairs nurse, shot and killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis on Saturday morning. "Indivisible SF" organized the vigil on Sunday saying it was to honor Alex Pretti and "other victims of ICE."
Nation’s largest union of registered nurses to hold week of action to honor Alex Pretti, RN and all killed by ICE, demand that Congress vote to abolish ICE now!
National Nurses United announced today that RNs are outraged and mobilizing to hold an entire week of ongoing candlelight vigils to not only honor and seek justice for the murder by federal immigration agents of fellow registered nurse Alex Pretti, but also to demand that the U.S. Senate and House vote no on any spending package that includes funding for ICE and other immigration enforcement agencies.
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